The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away chords by Roaring Jackl

Chords with lyrics

The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away

Artist/Songwriter: Alistair Hulett
Band: Roaring Jack
from "The Cat Among the Pigeons" (1988)
Released on LP (MBLP 7007), cassette (MBTC 7007) and CD (MBCD 7007) by
Mighty Boy Records in November 1988.


This is my own interpretation and is in no way a reflection Alistair or the
band's original chords or key.

(Capo 1st Fret)

C majorC        FF     C majorC      G+G
You came to this country in fetters and chains
FF      C majorC      A minorAm     G+G
Outlaws and rebels with numbers for names
C majorC     FF       C majorC     G+G
And on the triangle were beaten and maimed
FF         G7G7     C majorC
Blood stained the soil of Australia .


C majorC      FF     C majorC       G+G
Dookies and duchesses, flash lads and whores
FF          C majorC      A minorAm       G+G
You worked their plantations and polished their floors
C majorC       FF      C majorC       G+G
Lived in their shadows and died in their wars
FF         G7G7     C majorC
Blood stained the soil of Australia.

Chorus
    G+G      C majorC   C/GC/G
Does it quicken your heart beat
  FF      C majorC  A minorAm
To see tar and concrete
FF     C majorC       A minorAm     G+G
Cover the tracks of the old bullock dray
G+G         C majorC  C/GC/G
Have you grown so heartless
  FF      C majorC  A minorAm
To christen it progress
     FF       C majorC      G+G    C majorC
When the swaggies have all waltzed Matilda away


C majorC      FF       C majorC     G+G
Driven like dogs from your own native home,
FF      C majorC    A minorAm      G+G
Hardship and poverty caused you to roam
C majorC    FF      C majorC    G+G
Over the bracken and over the foam:
FF         G7G7     C majorC
Blood stained the soil of Australia.

C majorC      FF       C majorC     G+G
Then in the fever for fortune and fame
  FF        C majorC     A minorAm     G+G
You caused the poor blacks to suffer the same
C majorC       FF      C majorC     G+G
Imprisoned on missions or hunted for game
FF         G7G7     C majorC
Blood stained the soil of Australia.


(chorus)

C majorC        FF        C majorC      G+G
Its two hundred years since you came to this land,
 FF       C majorC       A minorAm      G+G
Betrayed by the girl with the black velvet band
C majorC         FF    C majorC     G+G
And still to this day you don~Rt understand:
FF         G7G7     C majorC
Blood stained the soil of Australia.


C majorC     FF       C majorC      G+G
Koori and white, old Australian and new
FF      C majorC     A minorAm  G+G
Brothers and sisters of every hue
C majorC       FF       C majorC        G+G
The future is ours, take the wealth from the few
  FF       G7G7     C majorC
And raise the Red Flag in Australia.


Chorus 2

    G+G      C majorC   C/GC/G
Let it quicken your heart beat
  FF       C majorC  A minorAm
The road~Rs at your own feet
FF     C majorC      A minorAm    G+G
Travel it lightly and travel it well
  G+G       C majorC C/GC/G
And don~Rt speak of success
  FF      C majorC A minorAm
Or christen it progress
    FF       C majorC     G+G    C majorC
Til the swaggies can all waltz Matilda as well.


Chords by Peter Jenner 2005
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